Hubble was recently retrained on the Butterfly Nebula to capture a fuller light spectrum, revealing more about the gas ...

X-ray: NASA/SAO/CXC; Optical: John Stone (Astrobin); Image Processing: NASA/SAO/CXC/L. Frattre, N. Wolk ...

A glittering fireworks display, this is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2 that resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away from ...

What we think of as “sound” is really just a vibration that travels through some sort of material (what scientists call a ...

“In space no one can hear you scream.” If space were truly empty—an utter vacuum, devoid of any matter—then yes, the Alien ...